Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
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Biography（As of September, 2023）
Mar 1987
Department of Information Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Mar 1989
Master’s Degree Program, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Nov 1990
Research Associate, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Jun 1995
Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Apr 2003 – Present
Professor, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies and Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Apr 2020 – Mar 2023
Dean, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Fellow of IEEE
Secretary General of ISCA (International Speech Communication Association)
President of APSIPA (Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association)
Member of the Information Processing Society of Japan; Acoustical Society of Japan; Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers; Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence; and Association for Natural Language Processing
Associate Member of Science Council of Japan
Engaged in research on speech information processing, especially speech recognition and dialog systems.
Doctor of Engineering, Kyoto University
Awards and Honors
2012
The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Professor, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
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Biography（As of September, 2023）
Mar 1982
Division of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
Mar 1984
Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Mar 1987
Ph.D., Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
May 1987
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco
May 1989
Research Associate, Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
Apr 1995
Research Associate, Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Oct 1997 – Sep 2000
Research Member, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (concurrent post)
Apr 1999
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
Aug 1999
Professor, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University
Jan 2003 – Present
Associate Editor of Developmental Cell
May 2004 – Present
Professor, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
Jun 2010
President of the 43rd Annual Meeting for Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists 2010
Apr 2010 – Mar 2014
Science Adviser, Research Promotion Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2016 – 2019
Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), Council of Scientists (COS)
Oct 2016 – Present
Committee Member of Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)
Dec 2020
President of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ2020 Online)
Apr 2021 – Mar 2023
Deputy Dean, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
Apr 2023 – Present
Director, the Center for Living Systems Information Science (CeLiSIS), Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
Member of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan; Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists; Japan Society for Cell Biology; and American Society for Cell Biology
Developmental biology. Recently engaged in research on the mechanism that governs the functions of living creatures from early development to aging and its dependence on the nutritional environment.
Doctor of Science, Kyoto University
Awards and Honors
2004
The 1st Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Prize “Studies on Genetic Programs of Cell Polarity Underlying Multicellular Organization”
2009
The 26th Inoue Prize for Science “Controlling Mechanisms of Cell Polarity That Support Functional Expression in Multicellular Systems”
